Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pan for heating flaxseed and other seed from which oil is expressed.
- noun The first pan in which sugarcane juice or sugar-maple sap is heated, preparatory to dipping or evaporating.
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Examples
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Lecoeur and La Sarriette there, dipping their noses into the heating-pan, and buying hot sausages for breakfast.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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When Mademoiselle Saget at last went away, the mistress of the shop glanced with disgust at the cover of the heating-pan, the glistening metal of which had been tarnished by the impression of the old woman's little hands.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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There were always two or three lachrymose women in front of the chilled heating-pan.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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"Augustine," she cried, "bring a duster, and wipe the cover of the heating-pan.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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She went in shrivelled and shrunk by the frosty air, and, resting her hands on the heating-pan to warm them, remained in front of the counter buying nothing, but repeating in her shrill voice: "He was with them again yesterday; he seems to live there now.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
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